“When the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has promised you, and you say, ‘I will eat meat,’ because you crave meat, you may eat meat whenever you desire.
And if the Lord your God enlarges your territory, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land that he promised to give to your fathers—
Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours. Your territory shall be from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the western sea.
For I will cast out nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one shall covet your land, when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three times in the year.
Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from harm so that it might not bring me pain!” And God granted what he asked.
“However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns, as much as you desire, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you. The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.
And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.
On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites and the Jebusites.”
For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.
I long for your salvation, O Lord, and your law is my delight.
Behold, I long for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life!
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
My soul longs, yes, faints for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
And David said longingly, “Oh, that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate!”
And the spirit of the king longed to go out to Absalom, because he was comforted about Amnon, since he was dead.
Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving.
but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the Lord who is among you and have wept before him, saying, “Why did we come out of Egypt?”’”
Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat!
And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?”
for he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill.
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